Hen mounting hens

[sloanbychoice]

So, I’ve heard about it. Never had it happen as long as I’ve had chickens. But tonight, I saw a BR full on mounting an EE. We’re talking the whole kit and kaboodle. She even shook her feathers out like a roo when she was done.
My head hen is in the “hospital” in my daughter’s room, five days post-op from a comb surgery.
So apparently this BR thinks she’s the top now, but, um, wow.
She did it three times in the hour I was in the run.
I’m assuming I need to pull her out to reset the order?? But knowing this particular chicken, she’s likely to just pick up where she left off.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

So, I’ve heard about it. Never had it happen as long as I’ve had chickens. But tonight, I saw a BR full on mounting an EE. We’re talking the whole kit and kaboodle. She even shook her feathers out like a roo when she was done.
My head hen is in the “hospital” in my daughter’s room, five days post-op from a comb surgery.
So apparently this BR thinks she’s the top now, but, um, wow.
She did it three times in the hour I was in the run.
I’m assuming I need to pull her out to reset the order?? But knowing this particular chicken, she’s likely to just pick up where she left off.

Pics of her? She could be going rooster if an ovary is damaged, but not likely. She’s probably just reveling in her newfound leadership, lmao.

 

[JaeG]

We have an Old English Game bantam who does this to the Wyandotte bantams (who are almost twice her size). It's quite hilarious. It's purely a show of dominance.

 

[sloanbychoice]

 

[aart]

Second pic is the mounter?
S/he's saying...'Yeah, what of it?

 

[sloanbychoice]

Second pic is the mounter?
S/he's saying...'Yeah, what of it?

Lol. That’s actually Prongs. The one doing it is Moony, I believe. She acts so much like a rooster right now, I started questioning myself!!! Like she hasn’t laid an egg almost every day for six months!!
It’s just weird that she started doing it so suddenly. And seems to be always to this one EE, who is the most shy, and bottom of the order.